[ExI] Slow thinking

[Dennis May]

Stefano Vaj wrote:
 
> Yes. My personal answer to Fermi's paradox is much 
> more along the lines of Wolfram's.
 
http://www.marcuschown.com/kelvinsample.htm
 
"If you do not like Wolfram's rather 
unorthodox 
explanation of the Fermi paradox, then you are 
left essentially with 
two plausible options: either 
there is some murderous race out there in the 
Galaxy - in which case perhaps we should be 
cautious about overtly announcing 
our 
presence - or we are the first intelligence to 
have arisen and therefore and 
utterly alone 
in the Milky Way. Then again, there could 
still be some 
explanation nobody has yet 
thought of."
 
Wolfram essentially said we won't recognize
advanced alien technology when we see it
and the aliens are sitting at home on their
computers because anything of interest can
be found there.
 
I have said before elsewhere that alien radio
signals would appear to be noise.  The military
was publicly discussing the advantages of 
impulse wide band encrypted radio back in the
late 1980s.  As Wolfram said - once you make
it efficient it looks like white noise.
 
Some other efficient alien technology may
also take on forms we don't recognize.
 
Dan Ust has often pointed out that not all
alien civilizations are going to take the same
path so why don't we see the upstarts,
those who don't follow custom, or civilizations
with a different outlook?
 
I view the SETI effort as too small so far to
catch unusual aliens or stray signals not 
following a general pattern.  I support the
idea that rather than a "murderous race"
we are looking at a generalized military
strategy for all times and all places - how
to render WoMD largely ineffective even 
considering the energy scales in space.
 
Superstealth - SND as discussed in a previous
post.
 
Dennis May
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